Version 4.13.0 (available June 2011)

• Access to all updates from June 2011 through May 2012 (i.e., versions 4.13.1 - 4.13.xx)
• Live XML activation through July 2012

Version 4.12.0 - 4.12.12 (updates made from June 2010 - May 2011)

• Improve criteria for displaying "No other statistics" line in individual career history
• Add Support for entry of career-totals-only statistics (career totals for a player, without season-by-season stats for that era). To use this:
  1. Select Edit | Add new season
  2. Add a season for the last year of the player(s)
  3. Select Edit | Edit season data
  4. Check the "Contains career totals only" option
  5. Click the "Individual stats" button
  6. In the "Full roster" list click <New player>
  7. Enter the career totals for a player who last played in that year
  8. Repeat for other players as necessary
  9. Stats entered will be marked as "Contains career totals only", will be considered for individual career records, not individual season records.
• Fix to tab-stop output for career individual single-game highs
• Sort roster by uni number (on load roster)
• Clarify Edit season option as "Contains career totals only"
• Fix to "START" display in Summaries | Game participation report
• Fix to treat blocked punt past line of scrimmage as punt by "TM" (instead of an incidental "tip")
• Improve NCAA team code lookup function for game and season Xml, update NCAA team codes
• Add punting statistics to Team superlatives report
• Fix to use 9-yardline as redzone for AFL venue
• Add various scoring adjustments for Canadian rules venue

• Access to all updates from June 2010 through May 2011 (i.e., versions 4.12.1 - 4.12.xx)
• Live XML activation through July 2011
• New Career Single Game High's included in HTML Career Summaries for individual players Sample
• Career All-time Results and All-time vs. Opponents included in the HTML Sample
• In Career reports, show season summary Html in browser, add national rankings in results, add option for "All years" in Html.
• Improve name sort for 3-part names like "Kevin D. Cox" and "T.J. Rogers"
• Allow maximimum 6-characters for team code in Game Reports | Xml output parameters
• Add "Show list of NCAA team codes" to Game Reports | Xml output parameters -- to display list of NCAA team codes
• Improve filter for "Team" player in career reports
• In game Xml, force player tags to sort by uniform number, and force to say complete="Y" at end of game or after drive "ended how" is known (instead of waiting for ensuing kickoff)
• For in-game scoring, calculate red zone attempts from the 20-yardline instead of the 19-yardline to comply with Ncaa statisticians guidelines (unless Rule control | Fumble as Ncaa = "N")
• For live game Xml, add "Retries after copy failure" option to Copy file settings section on Live setup window.
• Add "Touchdowns" and "Field goals" breakouts under Redzone Scores-Chances listing in Team statistics report
• Accommodate display in career/historical reports for results when W-L-T is known, but final score is unknown; in own-score/opp-score fields enter "99-0" for a win, "0-99" for a loss, and "99-99" for a tie

• Access to all updates from June 2009 through May 2010
• Live XML activation through July 2010
• New Game Viewer access to career statistics (uses Career XML Summaries by player)
• New feature to Show/Flag/Hide inactive players
• Add print all box scores function (scoring summary and AP boxscore)
• Add controls for text color of teamID's and "Prd" in scoreboard area of Live HTML
• Format scoreboard output names as Last, First
• In Report Packet function, add option for interspersed "cumulative thru" Quickie stats
• In Report Packet function, add option for interspersed "quarter-only" Quickie stats
• Add play type "FUMB" to 'longplays' tag in game XML, for NCAA data collection
• Add play type "PUNTING" to 'longplays' tag in game XML, for NCAA data collection
• Show opponent rank in Combined Stats report
• Add "Drives" summary to Play Analysis to show avg. field position on drive possessions 
• Implement "style" format for Long Plays and Money Plays in Play Analysis reports
• Add support for schedule legend in Career All-time Results reports
• Expand ties for team and individual season and career records in Career reports
• Improve sort for Career reports season statistics summary
• Add Career reports XML summaries (by season) for archive purposes
• Add controls for Career HTML column header color
• Accommodate career historical data where games played information was not tracked
• Add "All" line to Individual Career Summary for "prior team" stats totals where applicable
• Add controls for Conference HTML column header color
• Html output: Add handling for "special" characters in player names
• Various fixes and minor enhancements

• Access to all updates from June 2008 through May 2009
• Live XML activation through July 2009
• New style format for season and career reports
• Table-style format career HTML output
• Improve directory prompts for: import/export, pack/unpack, copy HTMLto disk, backup/restore
• Add menu item for taszip backup/restore in Windows Utilities
• Ability to arrange the order of reports in the game packet, and insert graphics images into report header of style reports
• Roster report added to "Season Reports" (features include sort by uni # or name, 'style' format and XML format)
• Accommodate Vista to display HTML | View HTML functions and modify method for import roster, to avoid failure of copy of .fro file.
• Add categories for fumbles forced, fumbles recovered, pass breakups, QB hurries and blocked kicks to season and career records reports
• Update the RULES.NCA file to reflect new kickoff spot (the 30-yardline)
• Use format "plyr_#.htm" for filenames/links to individual game-by-game sections in Season HTML to simplify linking from bio pages
• For live stats, enable second feed as XML format when primary feed is HTML
• Implement style report for newspaper box score and play breakdown
• Game reports: show number of yards gained to the point of a fumble in the play-by-play narrative
• Adjustments for AFL rules set (on-side kicks, forced fumbles on sacks, fumble recovery TDs, fumble transitions on kick returns)
• For Live HTML, option display game info within sponsor text -- to do this add a line in the sponsor text file containing the tag: <info/>
• Various fixes and other minor enhancements

2007 (Version 4.9)

• Access to all updates from June 2007 through May 2008
• Live XML activation through July 2008
• New style game reports:
  quickie stats, team stats, individual stats, scoring summary, drive chart, defensive stats, participation report, play by play
• Game Viewer - allow for "http" access to game, season, and career XML files via the internet
• Generate player name links with underscores to accomodate web-based tools (for both season and career HTML reports)
• Option to include games started in the Defensive Stats report (season)
• Add a new result code of "A" for Aborted Play Fumbles
• Option to mark stats for a player from another team/school (to exclude from season & career leaders)
• Tackles added to Quickie Stats report
• Add a line fot TDs in both the Rushing and Passing sections of the Team Stats report (game)
• Install updated NCAA team code list (ncaacode.rpi)
• Game Viewer - implement method to automatically resize viewer window at startup
• Various fixes and other minor enhancements

2006 (Version 4.8)

• Access to all updates from June 2006 through May 2007
• Live XML activation through July 2007
• New “stylesheet” format for live HTML stats with TAS Live
• Career summary all-time, single-season rankings
• Career all-time records vs opponents
• Import games list sort by date
• Include manual entry ".sss" scoring summary in game XML
• Onside kicks in season Team Statistics report
• Red-zone summary in Team Statistics report
• Onside kick success/allowed categories in conference Team Leaders report
• Conference standings shows home/away/neutral record in won/lost streak
• Table-style format for post-game web pages
• Career category ordinal rankings (1., 2., etc.)
• Prompt team name spelling on roster import
• Conference career change team id and delete team functions
• Team net punting avg calculation in accordance with NCAA change
• Kickoff statistics added to game individual statistics report
• Prompt for touch by receiving team during on-side kick (for fumble/return stats)
• Play detail tags added to game XML output
• Various fixes and other minor enhancements

2005 (Version 4.7)

• Access to all updates from June 2005 through May 2006
• Live XML activation through July 2006
• Career reports: game results are now included in the Season | Summary report and Summary HTML outputs
• Career reports: new "All-time results" report shows game results for each season
• Career reports: new "All-time vs team" report shows game results against a selected opponent
• Career reports: career capture automatically extracts game results; Edit | All-time results function to enter results for prior seasons
• Easier setup for transmit of report files to Sports Systems
• Play-by-play: reflect adjusted drive start yardline after penalty on kickoff
• Add Settings | Report options | Show uniform number in play-by-play option
• Use smaller print in "Fumbles" section of game individual stats to avoid truncation on right
• Use smaller print in Newspaper box to avoid truncation on right
• Game reports: reduce the font size in the scoring summary, individual stats and drive chart to avoid truncation on the right (on some printers)
• Game setup | game info: Allow values of "V" and "H" in the "Conference:" field to indicate the game is a conference game for only the visiting or home team, respectively
• Game scoring: implement result code of "S" for 1-point safety as a possible result when defense attempts a return of a PAT attempt
• Season reports: add info for average starting yardline in kickoff stats -- show average net yardline for opponents field position after a kickoff
• Use "vs" instead of "at" for neutral site games in Game Highs report
• Season reports: use the current uniform number in the "master" roster in reports (instead of uni number from 1st game)
• Add punt details to Season/Career summary report
• Add kickoff details to Season/Career summary report
• Add kickoff statistics to team and individual game-by-game reports
• Season reports: add new report Summaries| All-purpose yards (individual game-by-game summary format)
• Career stats: add total offense category to Individual Career Summary report for individual players
• Career reports: enable the Reports | Individual career summaries (ALL YEARS) report to be displayed using TasFonts (otherwise, this output is too large to fit into the "standard" file viewer -- you can use a word processor such as NotePad, WordPad, Microsoft Word, etc., to display it)
• Improve layout of HTML statistics home page
• Display the HTML Individual Game-by-Game links on both the Game-by-Game Statistics page and the Individual Game-by-Game Summaries page
• Conference statistics: game setup | Game info: Allow values of "V" and "H" in the "Conference:" field to indicate the game is a conference game for only the visiting or home team, respectively
• Include latest version of NCAA team code list (to support Edit RPI codes function)
• Expand Team Kickoff Coverage category display on Team Leaders report
• Conference reports: add new report Team reports | Summaries | All-purpose yards (individual game-by-game summary format)
• Career statistics: add HTML generate functions; upload files in the carconf/html subdirectory; link to the carconf.htm file

2004 (Version 4.6)

• All maintenance updates from June 2004 through May 2005
• Live XML activation through July 2005
• New conduct reports
• New Control Panel feature to access software downloads online
• Implement play analysis Long Plays report
• Implement play analysis cumulative Play Breakdown report
• Implement play analysis cumulative Down Breakdown report
• Implement play analysis cumulative Tackles Breakdown report
• Implement play analysis cumulative 'Money' Breakdown report (rush/receive)
• Implement Utilities | Import/Export/ Import defensive stats function (to import manually adjusted defensive stats after the game)
• Prompt for save after change to Game info window (primarily to force a live internet stats update)
• Career stats - Improve format for Edit season | Summary report
• Career stats - Add function to generate season summary HTML file for a historical season (Edit season | HTML summary)
• Place defensive stats on a separate page in Combined Statistics report if Settings | Report options Combined stats | Defense #lines is more than 10
• Career stats - Add scoring, total offense, all purpose to season summary report
• Season reports - Add <All players> option for generating Individual game-by-game
• Career game records - add indiv longest fumble return category
• Career game records - add indiv/team pass breakup, blocked kicks categories
• Career game records - add indiv/team tackles for loss categories
• Career game records - add team/indiv fumbles forced, fumbles recovered categories
• Career season/career records - add fumble returns, yards, TDs categories
• Career season/career records - add fumbles forced, recovered categories
• Extend XML activation for 'Copy to file' function to support Game Viewers
• Add <qtrsummary> tag to the game XML output within <qtr> block to hold team statistics summary for each quarter. Note: If you use the Game Viewer, you must also download and install the Game Viewer update (below) to properly handle these new statistics in the XML output.
• Add pass efficiency column to Individual Game-by-Game Passing Summary report
• Implement additional kickoff statistics:
  • Show kickoff for touchback, out-of-bounds in Team Individual Statistics report
  • Automatically track kickoff touchbacks and out-of-bounds (in-game scoring)
  • Add fields to hold kickoff TB and OB values (manual entry)
  • Include "tb" and "ob" attributes in the XML <ko> tag
• Automatically mark participation for starters
• Automatically figure the team on a QB hurry input (only prompt for the uniform number)
• Add <redzone> stats to XML output; for use in Game Viewer
• Include additional statistics in Game reports | Team statistics
  • Expand rushing section
  • Expand passing section
  • Expand punting section
  • Show return TDs
  • Show punt/kickoff avg per return
  • Add kickoffs section
  • Show possession times by quarter
  • Add PAT, FG lines
• Add line for neutral site attendance to Team Statistics report
• Game Viewer: Implement optional Season XML files option to support display of season-to-date stats for a selected player
• Game Viewer: Improve the resizing method used for enlarge/shrink window (+/-) functions; in particular for the scoring summary, drive chart and play-by-play views
• Game Viewer: Add handling for new <qtrsummary> tag -- use buttons on Team statistics page to view team stats for the entire game (Game Totals) or for a specific quarter.
• Game Viewer: Implement display of redzone stats on Team stats view

2003 (Version 4.5)

• Add breakouts for conference-only career statistics
• Add breakouts for career statistics vs specific opponents
• Add individual game-by-game statistics to html output
• Add FB Game Viewer feature (for XML output)
• Add file transmit function for FTP to a report server
• Implement scoring changes for Canadian football rules:
• Show "BrUp" instead of "PD" (passes defended) in game defensive stats report
• Prompt for player that blocks a PAT kick attempt
• Add option to control whether first downs by penalty are counted as a play in the drive
• Add breakout by "period" in Scoring Summary for overtime possessions
• Add defensive statistics to the Cumes | Season/Career summary report
• Implement tab stops for play-by-play report
• Implement option to sort additional defensive stats by avg-per-game (FF, FR, PD)
• Html "preview" function
• Alerts for possible data discrepancies for NCAA reporting (click HERE for more info)
• Improved NCAA team code lookup functions
• New conference career stats program

2002 (Version 4.4)

• include timeouts left on scoring window, in live stats, and in XML output
• revised scoring: punt muffed then punted & blocked - goes against individual
• no longer displays "penalty against wrong team?" on penalties involving possession change
• Improved remote stats display
• improved performance in scoring window under Windows 2000/XP
• changed "Pass Def" to "Pass Brup" in season game-by-game reports
• ability to display team rankings in game reports, game results
• now shows red-zone stats in game reports (team stats, quickie stats)
• new "include games" options (season reports): home only, away only, wins only, losses only
• new report option added for "Half TFL assists"
• now uses extended names in Career Statistics
• new options in roster maintenance to convert names (upper case, mixed case, last-first, first-last)
• expanded NCAA team code lookup lists
• electronic NCAA (XML) reporting via the internet
• new report showing individual season overall and career overall in one report
• increase the size of the "as of date" field in reports
• improvements in player name reconciliation (during importing)
• improvements to the Windows Utilities function
• now supports 1st down guidelines for the AFL
• now show all-purpose stats in game individual stats report (for the AFL only)

2001 (Version 4.3)

• Produces all defensive stats as defined in the 2001 NCAA Guidelines
• Creates a post-game file to send to the NCAA ("Summary of Football Game Statistics" report)
• New yardline checks in the in-game scoring to reduce errors
• Red-zone stats are now calculated automatically in the in-game scoring program
• Game stats can now be generated for just a specific quarter
• All purpose yards no longer include "fumble return yards" (per NCAA Guidelines)
• Ability to configure top & bottom sections of HTML pages (for logos, links, etc.)
• Ability to tailor colors on TASLIVE (live internet stats)
• New option in Career/Historical reports to generate summaries for "all years"
• New "Control Panel" for Windows to make it easier to launch STAT CREW programs

2000 (Version 4.2)

• New! - Football Career/Historical Reports for Windows:
  Automatic HTML generation for career, season and single-game records
  Manual entry as well as automatic "capture" functions
  Individual career summaries (for active players)
  Individual career, single-season, and single-game records
  Team single-season and single-game records
  Team and individual year-by-year leaders
  Added passes defended, fumbles forced, blocked kicks to career stats
• Fumbles forced added to the game defensive stats report
• Fumbles by added to the game individual stats report
• Updates to NCAA Summary of Football Game Statistics form (per NCAA guidelines)
• Include RPI team codes in the NCAA Finals Statistics form
• Conference: Kickoff coverage added to the Team Leaders report
• Conference: Stats Discrepancy report to highlight possible data entry errors
• Conference: Automatic lookup of team codes for the NCAA RPI Questionnaire
• Method to enter foreits into the game results
• Quick access between Windows Reports programs via menu selection
• Live internet stats: improved format, simpler setup (Requires TasLive).

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